Author: Madame de La Fayette
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Princess De Montpensier" by Madame de La Fayette. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author: Chantal Thomas
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
ISBN: 1590517032
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Two young princesses navigate the court intrigues of 18th-century France and Spain in this stunning historical fiction novel based on a true story. “Vivid, engrossing . . . one of the most fascinating historical narratives I’ve ever read.” —Diana Gabaldon, author of Outlander Philippe d’Orléans, the regent of France, has a gangrenous heart—the result of a life of debauchery, alcohol, power, and flattery. One morning in 1721, he decides to marry eleven-year-old Louis XV to the daughter of Philippe V of Spain, who is only four. Orléans hopes this will tie his kingdom to Spain. But were Louis to die without begetting an heir—the likeliness of which is greatly increased by having a child bride—Orléans himself would finally be king. Orléans tosses his own daughter into the bargain, the twelve-year-old Mlle de Montpensier, who will marry the Prince of Asturias, the heir to the Spanish throne. The Spanish court enthusiastically agrees and arrangements are made. The two nations trade their princesses in a grand ceremony in 1722, making bonds that should end the historical conflict. Nothing turns out as expected.
Author: Sophie Maríñez
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004337296
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 229
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Mademoiselle de Montpensier: Writings, Châteaux, and Female Self-Construction in Early Modern France examines questions of self-construction in the works of Anne-Marie-Louise d’Orléans, Duchesse de Montpensier (1627-1693), the wealthiest unmarried woman in Europe at the time, a pro-women advocate, author of memoirs, letters and novels, and the commissioner of four châteaux and other buildings throughout France, including Saint-Fargeau, Champigny-sur-Veude, Eu, and Choisy-le-roi. An NEH-funded project, this study explores the interplay between writing and the symbolic import of châteaux to examine Montpensier’s strategies to establish herself as a woman with autonomy and power in early modern France.
Author: Robert Brown Borthwick
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368159240
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.
Author: Lorna Sage
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521668132
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 708
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An alphabetized volume on women writers, major titles, movements, genres from medieval times to the present.
Author: Madame De Lafayette
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781406525601
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne (Comtesse de Lafayette) (1634-1693) was a French writer. She was born in Paris to a family of minor but rich nobility. In 1655, de La Vergne married François Motier, Comte de Lafayette, a widowed nobleman some eighteen years her senior, with whom she would have two sons. Settling permanently in Paris in 1659, Lafayette published, anonymously, La Princesse de Montpensier in 1662. Her most famous novel was La Princesse de Clèves, France's first historical novel, first published anonymously in 1678. An immense success, the work is often taken to be a prototype of the early psychological novel.
Author: Madame De Lafayette
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781419278709
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Duc de Guise recognised her immediately in spite of the changes which had taken place in her appearance in the three years since he had last seen her. He told the Duc d'Anjou who she was and the Duc was at first embarrassed at the liberty he had taken, but then, struck by the Princess's beauty, he decided to venture a little further, and after a thousand excuses and a thousand compliments he invented a serious matter which required his presence on the opposite bank, and accepted the offer which she made of a passage in her boat.
Author: Madame de Lafayette
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781981806171
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Princess of Montpensier is a short story or novella by Madame de La Fayette, published anonymously in 1662. It is the story of adulterous love affairs where the heroine falls in love with someone other than her husband. It is considered a classic work of French literature and was adapted for film in 2010 under the same title.
Author: Vincent Joseph Pitts
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801864667
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Viewed through her writings, the events of Mademoiselle's life offer a unique perspective on several aspects of seventeenth-century France: the evolution of the Bourbon monarchy over the course of the century, the dynamics of aristocratic resistance to the centralizing power of the state, and the debate over the role of women in public and private life.
Author: Agnes Strickland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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